(Lab Manager Magazine) Oak Ridge National Laboratory materials scientist and Corporate Fellow Amit Goyal has been named a winner of the Department of Energy's Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award honoring U.S. scientists and engineers for exceptional contributions in research and development supporting DOE and its mission...11/29

(PhysOrg) The Curiosity rover that was launched toward Mars over the Thanksgiving holiday includes a significant contribution from ORNL and DOE. The mobile instrument platform contains a plutonium oxide-powered generator....11/29

(Christian Science Monitor)
Some ecological economists are proposing housing computers like the 54-cabinets that make up the Cray XT3 supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which generate a lot of heat, in private homes as heating sources....11/29

DOE

(Knoxville News Sentinel) [Opinion] Even in a period of constrained budgets, science in the United States needs consistent support from the federal government to keep the nation competitive in a world that is rapidly advancing....11/29

East Tennessee

(Knoxville News Sentinel) The property owner who removed the stone memorial marking what is thought to be the birthplace of Civil War naval hero David Glasgow Farragut said this week that she would consider offering the marker to a local municipality for public display....11/30

National

(Christian Science Monitor) A new Census report shows child poverty up since 2007. With many benefits for the poor – such as the Earned Income Tax Credit – expiring at the end of the year, things could get worse....11/29

(Washington Post) Leaders of more than a dozen environmental groups are sending a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton Tuesday, warning that the administration's current negotiating position at United Nations climate talks in Durban, South Africa could undermine progress there....11/29

(NPR) Businesses keep vast troves of data about things like online shopping behavior, or millions of changes in weather patterns, or trillions of financial transactions — information that goes by the generic name of big data....11/30

(Slate) This year caps a decade that matches the record for the hottest on record, the U.N.'s World Meteorological Organization said Tuesday in a new report unveiled to coincide with the latest round of international climate talks....11/29

(Wired) The latest ranking of the most efficient supercomputers on earth — the biannual Green500 — shows that the greenest supercomputers are getting greener at an increasingly faster rate, thanks in part to the rise of graphics processors in these massive server clusters....11/29

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